Voter ID Foolishness

I feel bad for our poll workers (0.00 / 0)

They are already asked to do so much for so little reward.  The pay is really pathetic first off.  Texas should really be investing more money to pay our election workers more so we can recruit more workers. Then give the counties more money for better training.

These good citizens who step up are underpaid, over worked and maybe even under trained for their responsibilities now.  Now they will need to be trained more hours to recognize a valid photo ID under this bill.

Who is going to want to be a poll worker if this bill passes?

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by: sonia @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 19:41:40 PM CDT

More on Voter ID Foolishness (5.00 / 1)

First, I don't for a moment concede that there is any evidence that we need voter ID legislation like SB 362, but for the sake of argument let's assume that we do.

Ask any college kid today about getting a fake ID to get into a bar or go to the liquor store and they'll tell you it's not hard to find one. They'll probably tell you it's a cottage industry on campus. Talk to the enforcement staff of TABC and ask them about fake photo ID's. They'll tell you two things, one is they're quite prevalent and the other is they're good enough that it's often hard to tell them apart from the real thing even for them, let alone a poll worker with very little training and even less experience.

We've all heard the news that identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the country, the credit card companies even do commercials about it. These folks routinely gin up fake photo ID's and supporting documents.

What's even easier though given the proposed legislation's options for other non-photo forms of identification is forging utility bills and such. I can whip those out on a home computer and a $70 color printer so fast it'll make your head spin. The whole notion that this legislation will prevent voter fraud is a farce of the first order.

The only people this legislation will stop from voting are folks that simply don't have legitimate documentation because they don't drive and don't get the necessary bills in their name or don't keep them around when they do. Therefore the real affect of this bill is voter suppression.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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by: Blue_in_Guadalupe @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 22:47:25 PM CDT